Keeping water out of your boat has a lot to do with how well you have bedded the hardware and ports. Read 5 ways to use Butyl Tape to serve this purpose. We use it extensively with great results.
Site Seeing in Destin Florida with the Grand Squids
We decided it would be a nice thing to do over spring break to take the girls for a little bit of a vacation. We opted for a trip to …
Visiting Melbourne Australia
It has been busy for me at work and traveling lately. The latest of this proof is last week when I posted about a trip that had come up for …
Rigid vs Flexible hose for Drains
There are many debate amount boaters and do it yourself lovers of good old boats. One that I have heard many times has to do with plumbing and whether or …
The Crew Checks out a local Cemetery
One of the things we like most about this adventure of Semi Cruising / Living aboard / Still working, is that we don’t typically stay in one place long enough …
Leaking Temporary Port Repair
If you recall, I had put in a temporary Lexan port when the port window cracked. I decided to make a temporary repair because we had intended to replace the …
Serious Flooding in Louisiana, Evacuating the kiddo’s from the boat
This week I was out of town for work and Deb was telling me that the weather forecast was calling for 11 inches of rain. Our biggest concern was whether …
Hodge Podge of updates: Hatch Cover, Applesauce Recipe, Next Project, Kids in Nature…
We were hoping this week to have finished the design on our new bank of batteries for the boats House Bank. This is going to be a large amp hour …
Organizing the Galley & Making Smoothies
This week was all about getting the galley a little bit more organized. Our Grandkids, Chasity and McKinlee came to live with us, and this meant that we needed to …
The Plan B – the “Oh Crap, we have a problem at sea” repair manual
OK, seriously tongue in cheek here, but when in an emergency and at sea, there is a sad amount of truth to the concept of fix it quick, keep it …